DOUBLE TAKE.

Just 3 1/2, but he's going on 30

September 18, 2005|By BBC.

He runs seven hours at a stretch, sometimes as much as 30 miles. Every day. And Budhia Singh is just 3 1/2. A judo coach named Biranchi Das in Bhubaneswar, India, says he once scolded Budia for misbehaving. "After he had done some mischief, I asked him to keep running till I came back," Das said. "I got busy in some work. When I came back after five hours, I was stunned to find him still running." He starts running at 5 a.m. each day and does not stop till noon. After a few stretching exercises, he has lunch and goes for a nap. At 4 p.m. it is time to run again. Das has set his eyes on a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. That, he says, will be possible when Budhia can run about 56 miles at a stretch. "I have no doubt whatsoever that he will achieve it soon," Das says.